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The Trump administration appears to be at loggerheads with China. A trade war between China and the US appears to be escalating. American officials have also declared that they would not accept China as the world's top leader, displacing Washington from its elevated perch. The United States is also showing urgency to engage China in a nuclear dialogue, covering atomic warheads and delivery systems. Trump's utterances on the Panama Canal as well as Greenland also appear to have been driven with the intent of out-competing China in some critical geographies of the globe. As frictions between the world's largest and second largest economies exacerbate, what would be the end game? Will tensions finally result in a deal between the two powerful nations or is a dangerous global meltdown looming on the horizon? The upcoming interactive dialogue will cover some of these issues marking the future trajectory of US-China ties.

Speaker

Atul Aneja is a veteran journalist specialising in foreign affairs. He is the former Editor of India Narrative website, and Strategic Affairs Editor of the Hindu newspaper. For 17 years, he worked as an international journalist, covering China, West Asia, Eurasia, and South Asia. As the Hindu’s Associate Editor in Beijing (2014-20), he had the opportunity to observe up close China’s transition in the Xi Jinping era, based on extensive field reporting across the length and breadth of that country, including two rare visits to Tibet. Earlier as the West Asia correspondent for the Hindu, based in Bahrain and Dubai from August 2002-June 1, 2014, Atul could live an international journalist’s dream by field reporting the twists and turns of the Arab Spring from Cairo, Benghazi and Tunis. Focusing on conflict zones, he reported the Lebanon war of July/August 2006 between Lebanese Hezbollah and Israel from Beirut, Sidon and Damascus. Before that he covered the Iraq war after the Anglo-American invasion of that country from Baghdad, Najaf, Kirkuk and Arbil in 2003-04. Atul cut his teeth in war reporting by covering the Kargil war (1999) from Kashmir, the situation in Afghanistan from Kabul, Almaty and Dushanbe soon after the 9/11 attacks. He has frequently visited Iran since 1996. Having an immersive feel of the ground situation across several geographies, Atul now wants to leverage his experiences to promote India’s interests as a civilisational state in Eurasia, China, Southeast and the Global South amid the emergence of a post-Covid world order in a multipolar setting. He has a M.Phil degree from the School of International Studies (Africa division), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Chair

Alka Acharya is Director, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi; and, Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she has been teaching and guiding doctoral research since 1993. From April 2012 to March 2017, she was full-time Director and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies. She was Editor of the quarterly journal China Report (New Delhi) from 2005-2013. She was nominated by the Indian government as a member of the India-China Eminent Persons Group (2006-2008) and was a member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India for two terms (2006-2008) and (2011-2012). Her publications include Crossing a Bridge of Dreams: 50 years of India-China (co-edited, 2001), China & India: Politics of Incremental Engagement, (2008) and most recently, Boundaries and Borderlands: A Century after the 1914 Simla Convention (Routledge, New York 2023). Her current research focuses on India-China-Russia Trilateral Cooperation.

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